NAS/Storage Megathread: What is this "File Deletion" You Speak of

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xylo: Feb 21, 2007; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

Combat Pretzel posted:

Here's a philosophical question: How does MS expect their Storage Spaces to go anywhere, if they have poo poo all documentation, nor a roadmap, which I'd presume would be important given how barebones it is. Did anyone in enterprise actually adopt it?

It's not uncommon for companies to not detail out everything they are planning for compete reasons. Personal opinion is that it's only suitable atm for simple soho solution as the service it's replacing is drive extender.

I built a new NAS about 6(?) months ago and played with using as a possible solution, but after a lot of playing I found for me it was not ready for what I wanted to build. If it wasn't good enough for me then I doubt any enterprise would adopt it either.

edit: I lied, it was 10 months ago. Just checked and I built it in November '13.

xylo fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Sep 11, 2014

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xylo: Feb 21, 2007; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

Combat Pretzel posted:

The Icy Dock enclosures, are they worth it? Or is it cheap poo poo? --edit: Or Icy Box ones (from RaidSonic)?

I guess it's a bit annoying that you get things like ReFS, which is supposedly super-awesome, but there's jack poo poo of detail documentation as to why exactly. Not that I expect them to divulge the on-disk data layouts, but some theory beyond "woohoo B+ trees" would be nice. And as far roadmaps, this alludes a little to the poor performance of parity spaces and the inability to use ReFS' self-healing on it.

v1 man.

I can't remember the exacts but I think you can use ReFS okay with SS as long as you disable integrity streams (SS has it's accounting so the extra layer on the filesystem isn't needed)? I could be wrong.. it's been a while since I looked.

I should do a write up of what I found to be the best working NAS setup for what I wanted. Basically after all the options (NSTF/ReFS/Spaces/SoftRaid/etc), what I found works best was getting a good hardware raid controller, using ReFS with integrity streams off, creating vhdx of drives and then using those as iSCSI target exports to machines.

I found that right now with ReFS, integrity streams impact performance way to much (I suspect there is some locking contention work that needs to be fixed up somewhat). I used ReFS so I wouldn't have to worry about waiting for chkdsk on a 13TB array if something went sideways. It's worked very well so far.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2014 19:01

xylo: Feb 21, 2007; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

src: i have qnap nas'es and haven't seen a relevant security flaw

I just recently bought one of there enclosures for jbod use and it seems pretty okay so far. No issues hooking up etc. It's seems fine enough that I would consider moving to a dedicated qnap appliance with this attached if I move away from my current setup.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2024 17:16

xylo: Feb 21, 2007; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

Cygni posted:

Storage Spaces user checking in

i just rebuilt on this because I wanted to expand and rebalace without having to do duplicate disk counts. Very happy with the result so far. Spare cycles used by hyper-v machines as needed

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:47

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